: How to do a freehand gradient I'm working on a project in which I need to blend a gold color into black, but the part I'm trying to use a gradient on is curved. When I do a gradient,

@Si6392903

Thoose kind of gradients are easily done in Vectors using a mesh fill, so you probably can:


Import the PSD image as a reference into Ilustrator or Corel.
Make your mesh
Export that and use it as a fill on your masked shape.


Just an idea.

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@Cody3331749

You can always use an extremely large brush with the hardness set to zero. Then you can just "paint" your gradient any shape you want. And you can control/command select a layer to make a selection mask that matches your shape.

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@Jamie315

You probably want to use an angle gradient instead of a linear one.

You can do this both as a gradient overlay setting (for layer effects), and as a gradient fill setting (for vector shapes).

It will go around a center and curve, like so:

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